@alaa
You wanna know why we don’t have “toptalents” in defence, cause dutch people in general don’t really appreciate good defending as much as others. So we don’t adjust our youth departments to produce pure defenders. We don’t really give much extra care. So most of our young defenders are already behind in their development. And above that, since we don’t really give our defenders much credit, we criticise them a lot, pretty overcriticising, that is copied by people from other countries, that’s how we became known for lack off good defenders and defending qualities and what might be very big defensive talents are often underrated given our self-created reputation. That’s why big clubs abroud are more hesitant to buy dutch defenders of say 22-23 years old. So we spoiled our own reputation and credit. Every now and then a natural defender might come through and will make his way to the top(Stam). But often they’re midfielders of attackers being formed into defenders(Reiziger, Bouma, Koeman, V.Bronckhorst etc.) which sometimes turns out great, but all of this does create the situation that we underrate a lot of defenders, so tho everyone else by it, and that makes them less attractive for big clubs, which makes us extra critical, as they play for say Aston Villa they must be much worse than if they were at Chelsea. The circle goes round again It above all makes us believe we have a lack of good or topdefenders. Now it also creates the situation were we have periods with almost no widely respected defenders or defenders at top clubs. So Chelsea decided to do it in a different manner, they picked up dutch talented defenders Bruma and V.Aanholt at a very young age, to form them more in the english style of defending, while they also have had the benefit of being educated in a dutch style of play at least for a while.

Now that’s just my view on the whole thing.

thank you man:), i donno how you come up with these awsome articles, but i love them:). i just looked up some videos of eljero elia on youtube, he is a real good dribbler, looking forward to see him in orange:). man how many talents we have upfront, when are we gonna start talking about big talents for the back line that worries me a lot for the coming world cup!!!